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Each year on April
7th, the world celebrates World Health Day. On this day, Children’s Art
Festival “Butterfly” will be held in Kyiv (Ukrainian House, a multi-functional
exhibition centre, №
2 Khreshchatyk, at 15:00). The 2013 Charity
Festival is aimed at supporting blind and visually impaired children.

The Festival will
be organised by the Foundation for Youth and Olympic Swimming (whose President
is Denis Silantyev), encouraged and aided by the UNO. Baltic International Bank
will be the Official Partner of the event. The main goal of
the Festival is to draw public attention to particular problems faced by blind
and visually impaired children.

The event will be
hosted by Honoured Actor of Ukraine Vladimir Goriansky and his daughter Maria,
and a theatre and movie actress Rimma Ziubina.

The festival will
gather the winners, laureates and participants of the international and
Pan-Ukrainian contests, pop stars and talented musicians who are
sight-challenged.

It will be a fundraising event.
Money raised through ticket sales will be channelled to the purchase of
wearable assistive devices and assistive materials for blind and visually impaired children.

Ukraine’s and European swimming champion Denis Silantyev has four world
championship victories in butterfly, won the silver medal at the 2000 in Sydney
Olympic, set 37 records in Ukraine.

The
Foundation for Youth and Olympic Swimming was established in 2008. The Foundation’s core objectives
are to

create the right environment
(economic, legal and social conditions) that is conducive to developing vitally
essential swimming skills, designed primarily for children and youth